7.29.2009

I had put Isabella in the bathtub and went to get Simon undressed so he could go in the bath with his sister. (Aside: my children are both really, really tall for their ages and since I lay Simon down, they have very little room.) As I was undoing Simon's diaper, I came to the quick realization that he had pooped and I said something out loud about yet another poopy diaper (Isabella had an awful one earlier today).

From the bathtub, Isabella asks loudly, "Did the poop go all the way up to his boobs?"

So here is where I must explain...

My mom had Isabella the other day and Isabella had an awful, runny poop that went EVERYWHERE and my mom expressed to Isabella at some point how it was such a bad poop that it went up to her boobs. Isabella forgets NOTHING and so that is where her lovely and thoughtful question above came from.

Off we went to Wal-mart this morning to get baby food and some movies for Isabella. Isabella has been watching Thumbelina for a few months now and often recites large parts of it. We figured we needed to enrich her movie watching so we bought 4 more movies hoping that she'll give Thumbelina a rest for awhile. (She is watching Monsters Inc right now.)

While we were at the cash Isabella noticed some Dora markers and insisted that she have them. Her father agreed and the cashier put them in her own little bag.

While we were in the car heading home she asked her dad what was in her little bag and her dad said that they were markers.

I attempted to feed Simon some avocado yesterday. It did not go over well at all. The look of disgust on his face was priceless and that wasn't all - he had full body tremors from it that made his arms wave wildly...I must have laughed for a good 5 minutes. Even Isabella asked me what his problem was.

As Simon was getting over the avocado tremors, Isabella was eating a huge (HUGE) amount of broccoli. Twice I had to give her more. I touched her forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever or something...

7.24.2009

Off to the grocery store we went when Simon woke from his nap. It was around noon and I guess Isabella was hungry. We start our 'grocerying' and Isabella says, "I'm hungry" and runs over to the bakery counter and asks the woman there, "Do you have any sample cookies?" Lucky for her, the woman laughed and gave her a cookie.

7.22.2009

A few months ago, I was in the kitchen making breakfast and Isabella wanted something upstairs. I couldn't go get it for her and she didn't want to go up by herself. I told her that I would count all her steps as she went upstairs and I would do it loud so she could hear me the whole time. It worked like a charm and ever since then, if she needs to go on another floor by herself, she asks me to count her steps. It happened this morning except I accidentally stopped counting before she made it back to me.

We had all gone out for a walk one night after dinner and Isabella tripped on a crack in the sidewalk (?) and skinned her knee pretty bad. Her dad carried her back home and he put some kid bandaids on it. We have about 6 different kinds that Isabella has picked out - Spongebob, Batman, Barbie, Dora, Hello Kitty. Okay so maybe we only have 5 kinds. Anyway, this time she asked for Batman to be used on her knee and to make sure she kept the bandaids on, her dad told her that she couldn't touch them because Batman was 'doing his work'. She realized the importance of this and therefore she didn't touch her bandaids that night. The next morning when Isabella woke up the first thing she asked was 'Did Batman do his work?'. Now everytime she has on a bandaid she asks if Dora, Barbie, etc are 'doing their work'. Too funny.
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Simon is still as good as ever and still never cries and never fusses and is never unhappy. He is an absolute PRO at waving. We got home last night from visiting my parents and I walked into the house with him and as always the cat greeted us and Simon stuck his hand out and waved to her like crazy.

7.19.2009

There are a bunch of chipmunks (we refer to them as the chippies) that we feed at my parents' house. Isabella thinks this is the coolest thing ever and would sit and feed them for hours (if she had the attention span...).

Here she was told that the chipmunk feeding would be documented so that she could look at the pictures whenever she wants!

Here is the chippie making his way to her:

Next comes the actual feeding of the chippie:

And finally when all the chippies were nice and full and went to go bury their stash, Isabella did her chippie happy dance:

When Simon eats something he doesn't like, he scrunches up his face and shakes his head from side to side. It is so funny. This morning I shook my head and said 'No' and attempted to get Simon to copy me and shake his head. AND HE DID IT! 4 or 5 times. And then he would laugh right after - probably because I was cracking up at the cuteness of it. Oh he is such a fun baby!

We've been teaching Simon to wave hello/goodbye for the past few weeks and I think today he has got it down pat. He waved to my mom when she was waving bye to him and he waved bye to Isabella when she was going down for her nap. It is the cutest wave. He puts his arm up in the air then stares at his hand and concentrates on making it move. Adorable. Maybe we should teach him to blow kisses next...

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I'm Julia, writer of this here blog and mother to 'the boo' (11 year old Isabella) and 'the boy' (8 year old Simon). I blog about a variety of stuff: my family, my husband Pablo's battle with a brain tumour, fashion and kids' rooms. I'd love to see your kids' rooms so email me!